Surviving the Domestic Jungle

This evening at dinner my husband was telling a story from his youth when he walked to school on a Saturday and had to use a pay phone to call his grandmother and see if she would come and pick him up. It got me thinking about what the heck we did before cell phones and internet and GPS and all the things that allow us to keep in constant contact with people all over the world! If I don’t have my phone, I feel naked and unsafe. What if my car broke down? What if I was in labor? How would I call my husband?? Well, believe it or  not, people lived through those exact situations using land lines and pay phones!! Just scares me to think of a world like that! And imagine life without the Internet! How would I know anything????? I would have 6 sets of encyclopedias to try and learn but even those cant teach you what the Internet can. You can look up ANYTHING on the Internet and learn about it. Its such a great tool….most of the time. When I asked my husband the question of what did we do before cell phones, I answered my own question and said “LESS DRAMA!!”. When you think about it, it makes sense that our lives were less drama filled. There was no drunk dialing and if there was, you better hope they weren’t already on the phone because you werent getting through! There was no texting! No instant anything. You had to put in real effort to get a hold of someone where as  now, you push a button. If you left the house, you better hope you had an answering machine!! My husband said we knew less which is also true. It was much easier to have an affair and use the excuse that you couldn’t find a phone! Gossip took longer to get around and there was no call waiting. Ahh how things have changed and when I tell my kids about it all, they are probably going to laugh about how we lived. Its the same thing as our parents telling us they used to walk to school….uphill…..in the snow…with  no shoes!! Only difference is our stories will be true!!